Looks great! Congratulations on your good work.

I have a fiddle fig that has been dropping leaves all winter I think due to a drafty door . I hoping with warmer weather and the door recently getting fixed it will bounce back. Anything I can do to help it get back ?

EE123 - For starters, it needs better light. The light in that location is not nearly as good as you think it is. Try to move your Fiddle Fig to a location where it gets direct sun most all day.

The pot is very large, so it is hard to provide watering normal instructions. What has been your watering routine? How do you decide when to water and how much water do you add?

I too think it is a lack of light problem and not a watering problem (unless you water far too seldom).

It has been in that spot for at least a year . The 3 others in that area are doing ok . Its about a 100 foot north facing glass window at a museum . I water once a week about a quart - a half gallon often with a 9-3-6 foliage pro fertilizer.

I understand that you believe it is getting enough light, but it really is not getting enough to thrive. It clearly has lost a lot of leaves over the past three years. When a plant gets less than ideal light, it tends to shed leaves and deteriorate slowly.

It does not need fertilizer and that may cause more harm than good. Make sure the soil surface feels dry before you water.

If I knew more about the other plants I might be able to explain why they have done better.

In my humble opinion, seldom is a north facing exposure adequate for plants that need bright light to do well, such as the Fiddle Leaf Ficus. What may appear to be bright light to our eyes may in fact be poor light when it comes to lumens and light spectrum.

Thanks. I moved it to a south facing window . I think the others are getting a little more light than that one . I don't think the drafty cold door was helping at all either. Thanks so much for the help

Good luck!

Fig leaf advise for dummies please!
I just moved from kansas to houston and wanted a fig leaf so bad.
first one (named her betsy). I googled what to do because i have no idea what to do. Here is what i was told and what i did based on google search findings/advise.

Bought from home depot. It arrived about 1 week ago.
1-repotted it with miracle gro indoor soil
2- using a plastic planter with one draining hole underneath.
3- placed pebbles underneath the soil to prevent moisture (as i read on a blog) so pebbles followed by 4 inches of soil then the root and soil around it.
4. is this window giving it enough light? based on what my husband said it is west facing.

Now i see spots on it and i dont know if i got a bad tree or not.

I purchased the fig leaf fertilizer from amazon and plan on giving it 1teaspoon per 2 cups of water each month.

I live in houston TX. I want my baby to live!! please help/advise

Your Fiddle Fig looks fine. A few leaf imperfections are perfectly normal and not a cause for concern. The light there looks fine as long as the blinds are kept mostly open during the day. It was recently repotted, so it does not and will not need fertilizer for at least a year.

Allow the surface of the soil to get almost dry before adding enough water so that a bit trickles through the drain holes.

I agree with Will......mostly, @Carternat.

Do you really mean 1 tsp. of fertilizer per 2 cups of water monthly? The standard dilution rate is 1 tsp. per gal. A gallon is 16 cups! You are using a dilution ratio that is 8 times the recommended rate. Even then, I put 1/2 tsp. in a gallon of water, but I fertilize every 2 wk. in the spring and summer, and then use 1/4 tsp. in the fall and winter. I am no expert here, just have grown 100's of fiddles over a 25+ yr. period.

I have a fiddle leaf fig that I brought home a couple of months ago at the end of summer—it was doing great, (even started sprouting new leaves!), but with the beginning of fall I had to move it away from the heater vent—now it's dropped a few leaves, but is *still continuing to make new leaves*....! Is this leaf drop possibly due to needing energy for new leaves along with the adjustment to a new spot in the house? I've worked hard to not overwater, but might be able to water a little more now with the heater running.... just wanting to avoid overwatering. Any advice would be much appreciated!

@Shipyardenby - A FLF indoors needs two things - lots of direct sunlight and soil that stays damp. If it doesn't get enough of either, it will drop some lower leaves while continuing to produce new leaves at the ends of each stem. It is not about energy except energy from the sun.

Unless the plant or pot is in direct contact with a hot heating element, then the heater will not be a problem. Lots of sunlight is very important, so move it as close as possible to your sunniest uncovered window.

Unless your FLF has been repotted into a pot that is too large, then there is no need to worry about overwatering.

Thank you WillC! I think I need to move it to a better spot, like you said—I thought it would get decent light where I moved it (to be away from heater), but I think it's telling me that it's not a good place.... do you have any favorite remedies for root rot? I'm worried that this might also be something that I need to remedy as I'm seeing some dark brown spots developing on some of the leaves. New growth looks healthy, but smaller leaves for most part. Thanks again!

@Shipyardenby - The dark spots on the leaves are not likely to be a symptom of root rot. (That sounds like a google diagnosis!) If anything, I suspect you may be underwatering it. A photo would help.

New leaves are often smaller initially and get larger as they mature. Improved light will also help.

@shipyardenby, I've grown fiddles by the (many) hundreds, and I don't remember a single instance of root-rot. Your problems are simply those secondary to the stress of moving the plant and your poor growing conditions.

Thank you WillC and drdawg! I appreciate your input and advice. Yes, definitely overdoing the google searching and causing some needless worry, it seems... I think you're right that brown spots have been from too little water and not enough direct light. I moved my FLF again yesterday to a brighter spot and so far so good... they are now about 5.5ft away from our heating vent, but it's not an aggressive unit and I'm hoping this will be ok. I'll try to post some pics soon too

Unless it is close to touching the heating unit, that will not be a problem. Light is the most important consideration.